True Success in the Cloud

Building a Cloud-Ready Network

Learn about the importance of a cloud-ready network and the Cisco approach.

Private clouds offer an ideal way to solve some of your organization's biggest business and technology challenges. A private cloud can deliver IT as a service. This helps reduce costs, raise efficiency, and introduce innovative new business models to make your enterprise more agile and efficient while simplifying its operations and infrastructure.

Cisco offers you an integrated foundation for your private cloud. This foundation comprises:

A next-generation infrastructure that flexibly allocates shared resources-within a data center and across data centers

This complete, highly efficient data center infrastructure integrates computing, network, security, and management. It delivers outstanding performance and agility for the business while simplifying operations and lowering costs for IT.

This holistic approach unifies and dynamically optimizes computing, storage, and network resources, allowing them to be securely and rapidly repurposed and managed on demand.

Cisco Intelligent Networking for Private Clouds

Cisco combines the Unified Data Center with its intelligent, cloud-ready network to enable both elements to work as one and allow you to connect clouds. The result is an available, highly secure, and optimized infrastructure that delivers exceptional cloud experience for the user.

Speed implementation of your private cloud by using prevalidated, presized, and integrated resources that combine Cisco Unified Data Center and networking solutions with a range of industry-leading storage, virtualization, and management components from partners such as VCE and NetApp.

Cloud Enablement Services

To accelerate successful deployment of your private cloud, select from a broad portfolio of Cisco cloud enablement services specifically designed to maximize the benefits of Cisco's cloud infrastructure. These services are available from Cisco and our ecosystem and reseller partners:

Cloud-Ready Networks Boost performance, agility, and connectivity within data centers, between data centers, and beyond with a unique cloud-ready architecture.

Cloud computing is ultimately about delivering new business flexibility, agility, and innovations through new uses of technology. Cisco is uniquely positioned to deliver those advantages to enterprises through these features:

Cost-efficient integrated computing stacks

Unified architecture

Intelligent network

Advanced services

Broad partner ecosystem

Read these papers and customer stories to learn how Cisco can help you achieve your goals for private cloud.